Claude Monet and Frida Kahlo triumph at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s modern art auction on 16 November 2021 fetched a total of $282.9 million, led by a water lilies painting by Claude Monet and a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo.
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Macklowe Collection fetches $676 million at Sotheby’s
On 15 November 2021, Sotheby’s auctioned the first part of the Macklowe Collection, which -led by works by Rothko and Giacometti- achieved a total of $676 million, selling all the works offered.
Van Gogh leads Impressionist and Modern art auctions
On 11 November 2021, Christie’s Impressionist and modern art auctions, which included the sensational Cox collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, achieved a total of $752 million.
Christie’s sells all the works offered at its contemporary art auction
Led by Basquiat, Doig, and Beeple, Christie’s 21st century art auction in New York sold all the works offered, reaching a total of $219.3 million
One of Francis Bacon’s “Popes” goes up for auction
On 17 November 2021, Phillips will auction “Pope with Owls”, a painting by Francis Bacon that could sell for more than $35 million.
Nazi-looted portrait by El Greco comes to auction
On 7 December 2021, Christie’s London will auction a “Portrait of a Gentleman” painted by El Greco in 1570, the year of the artist’s arrival in Rome.
A Caravaggio on the art market? The Casino dell’Aurora goes on sale
In January 2022, the Ludovisi family will auction the Casino dell’Aurora on the Roman Via Veneto, which contains the only wall painting by Caravaggio.
Picasso triumphs in Las Vegas
Sotheby’s and MGM Resorts have auctioned in Las Vegas 11 works by Pablo Picasso for a total of almost $109 million.
St. Louis Art Museum receives major gift of Modern Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum has announced the future donation of 22 works of art from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, which includes works by 17 artists, among them Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Joan Miro, and Andy Warhol.
Self-destructing Banksy shakes up the art market
“Love is in the Bin”, the already famous painting by Banksy, partially self-destructed after being auctioned in 2018 for just over £1 million, has been auctioned at Sotheby’s for £18.5 million ($25,4 million), almost twenty times the price it had sold for before its self-destruction.